May 26-John Wayne, Marshall Dillon, Stevie Nicks, Hank Williams jr, Lenny Kravitz, South Park, Lauryn Hill

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Fact Toys about Today, presented by Cool Media. It's made the twenty sixth Blueberry Cheesecake sipping some wine. Life is so sweet, buddy bitter at times. Blueberry cheesecake, taking some time looking at the stars and the team team Nice Ticka be Big Bite Chica Bee, Big Bites. It is National Blueberry Cheesecake Day. Cheesecake. It was created by the ancient Greeks. But blueberry cheesecake that's all USA. Pretty self explanatory day to even with the blueberries. Though, Yeah, cheesecakes still aren't very healthy for you, but they taste really good.

0:53 And it is a holiday weekend, so ditch the diet and enjoy some blueberry cheesecake today. All right, list is going on and entertainment and I made twenty six looks back to. Nineteen fifty seven number one album was Clipso by Harry Belafante. Elvis Presley had the number one song with all Shook Up Well the blessing hustle of What's wrong with Me? I'm mitching recommend on a fuzzy entree, my friend say I'm back. What is a book I'm in love I'm all shook up Yay Furlin Husky. He had the number one country song with Gone Sinds You Gone ever So Stars in the Sky No the reason why right. The top selling book was The Scapegoat by Daphne d Morior. The top movie was Funny Face, a fashion shoot at a bookstar turns the sales clear work into a famous model. Stars Audrey Hepburn, Fred Asta and Kate Thompson. All Right, what happened in the world On May the twenty sixth.

2:07 In sixteen thirty seven, near what today is New Haven, Connecticut, the first war between settlers and Indians began. The first battle was called Mystic Massacre. English settlers and the pea Quat Indians went at it. Only one side had gun, so five hundred peak Quots were killed. They really didn't stand a chance, you know. The fighting did go on for a year, but it was over the pre Quat tribe. It was pretty much no more. Around seven hundred survivors were actually sold into slavery for the Bermuda and the West Indies. Sixteen forty seven, in Massachusetts, the Puritans, who had left Europe due to religious persecution. They banned Catholic priks from entering Massachusetts. Now no one ever did, but the death the penalty was death if the priests showed up. Eighteen ninety seven in Ireland Bram Stoker he published his book Dracula. Now have you ever taken a long car ride with kids?

2:54 Well, keep that in mind. In nineteen oh eight, mister and missus Jacob Murdoch and their three kids, all under ten, became the first family to drive a car across the United States. After leaving Los Angeles, they re lived in New York City. Took him thirty two days, five hours and twenty five minutes. They drove a Packard. Now, I think you've all heard of the car race that twenty four hours of Lamns. Well, it took place in France. That's where drivers they actually take teams of drivers over twenty four hours and they race and all that. Well, it's held nineteen twenty three, but not on a race track yet. It hadn't been completely built yet, so the first year they just raced through the straits of the Lamans for twenty four hours. Andre Lea Gucci and Renee Lenard and they actually won it nineteen twenty seven for it produced its fifteenth million model T car.

3:38 Well, it was the last one they produced. They discontinued it after that. Nineteen seventy eight, legal casino gambling began in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Nineteen ninety eight, the United States Supreme Court ruled that ellis Island. It's actually in New Jersey and not New York. Twenty twelve, Pope Benedict the sixteenth his butler he has arrested for leaking confidential documents to the press. Got coop coop cooke goat shot this shivers day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiver day. Were gonna simple tage. Let its shivers day. And you know we don't do because that's worth well, let's check out it. It's born on May the twenty sixth. Bird not singing. It is long time mating. I know about you. You're calling cool way, you're calling me swanny. Oh I love y'all. How I love your mine?

4:38 You're old Swanny. That was al Joson. He was born in there Is, Louis, Lithuania in eighteen eighty six. Moved to the United States when he was five. He did vaudeville. He's saying. He acted nineteen twenty seven, he starting the movie The Jazz Singer. It was the first talking picture talking motion picture. Now he was the highest paid and most known entertainer of the nineteen twenties. Now he's known as the King of Blackface. See today is considered extremely racist, but see Al did it to show that he was performing black music, and he wanted the black or the white audience to know that the blacks were what he was actually singing, and they deserve the credit. And he thought that if he was using blackface and maybe the white audience that was except the blacks, you know, performing in front of him and all that. But now they just think it's racist. Al.

5:20 He had a son from his third wife. He married his fourth wife in nineteen forty five and they had a son and a daughter. He died in nineteen fifty at sixty four years old from a heart attack. The Duke actor John Wayne. He was born in winter Set, Iowa, in nineteen oh seven. He weighed thirteen pounds when he was born. Grew up in California. He got the nickname Duke. Yeah. As a boy, he never went anywhere without his big dog named Duke. He had a football scholarship USA University of Southern California. Then he broke his collar bone body surface, so he lost his football scholarship and had to drop out of school. Well, his football coach did get him a job working in a movie studio, so starting out in silent movie is John. Wayne was in one hundred and seventy movies, nominated for Oscars for the Sands of Ego, GiMA, and Alamo.

6:03 He won an Oscar for True Grid had four children from his first wife. Married his third wife in nineteen fifty four and they had three children. Wayne. He died in nineteen seventy nine from stomach cancer at seventy two years old. Never know how much I love you, Never know how much I can't. When you put your arms around me, I get a fever. That's hard of bang, You're giving me a fever when you kiss me fever when you holy tight. That was Peggy Lee. She was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in nineteen twenty. She got really well known singing on the radio in North Dakota as a kid, so when she turned seventeen, she packed everything up and moved to Hollywood. It was a good call, I mean it took her about eight years, but she did hit really, really big. She wrote over eleven hundred songs, recorded over to in a seventy of them. She had a pretty good success as an actress too.

6:57 She was nominated for an Oscar for Pete Kelly's Blues, He did a lot of the singing and Disney's Lady in the Tramp. She divorced four times. She had a daughter from her first husband. Now she was still performing in the nineteen nineties. Sometimes they put her on stage in a wheelchair just so she could sing. She died from diabetes and heart failure in two thousand and two, at eighty one years old. The TV show Gun Smoke. It ran from nineteen fifty five to nineteen seventy five six hundred and thirty five episodes. Only primetime show with more Yeah, the Simpsons. James Arnest He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in nineteen twenty three. His younger brother was actor Peter Grays, now James. He wanted to be a fighter pilot in World War Two, but he stood six feet seven inches tall. Yeah, he was too tall to be a pilot, so they made it him a rifleman in the Entry, then in the Pacific in the Battle of Anzio.

7:53 As they were getting in their landing craft and they were getting ready to land on shore, they didn't know how much deep the water was where they were. Well, since our nest was the they made him get out first. Yeah, he got shot up really bad. I mean he lived, but it took him over a year to recover and he always had lake pain for the rest of his life. Best, No, I'm for playing Marshall Dylan and gun Smoke. He had two sons and one daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen seventy eight. They were together until he died in twenty eleven from natural causes at eighty eight years old. See Stevie Nicks. She's seventy six. She's born in Phoenix, Arizona, in nineteen forty eight. Now her and her boyfriend at the time, Lindsey Buckingham, they were out in California just kind of doing their own thing, playing coffee shops and that kind of stuff. Well, Lindsay he got asked to join the band Fleetwood Mac. He said he would do it, but only if they took Stevie. Well, they didn't work so well personally. They broke up pretty quick after they joined the band, but professionally worked out really well.

9:03 Fleetwood and Mac was one of the biggest selling bands of all times. She left to go solo in nineteen eighty one. Some of her hits are Edge of seventeen, stand Back Talk to Me, I can't wait now she's been back, left Fleetwood, max Is nineteen ninety eight. But this summer it's all Stevie. Yep, she's doing a solo tour. She married once for just a couple of months. Fucking Bolk. I had a guitar in my hand. I could talk. I had my own man. I went on the road when I was eighty years old. When fifteen, I was stealing the shows one of the burn and the Girls Pretty. She didn't take me long to learn it. I was born the boost. You can gone both seafest or Hank Williams Junior. He's seventy five, born in Street Bart, Louisiana, in nineteen forty nine. Now he is three years old and his legendary dad country singer Hank Williams died in nineteen seventy five. Junior he was climbing a Jacks mountain out there in Montana, fell over one hundred feet hit his head and got all messed up. Took a couple of years recover because of the scars. You'll never see him without a cowboy hat, sunglasses or a beard. Sold over seventy million albums. Some of his number one songs were Whiskey Bent and hell Bound, Dixie on My Mind, Honky Tonkin Born to Boogie. He's going out on tour June seventh, if you want to check him out. He had one child from his first wife, two from his second wife. Married his third wife in nineteen ninety and they had two children. His wife, she died in twenty twenty two. Actress Pam Greer. She is also seventy five. She was born in Winston Salem, North Carolina, in nineteen forty nine. Now. She grew up as an Air Force bratt, moving around a lot. Finally settled in Denver for high

10:35 school, and then after she stayed in Denver and went to Metro State. After she graduated from Metro she headed out to Hollywood hit big, starring in blaxploitation movies and women in Prison movies. Her biggest role with Foxy Brown. Some of her mainstream movies were Above the Law escaped from La Mars attacks Jackie Brown on TV. She was on the L Word for five years. Nineteen eighty eight, she was diagnosed with stage four or cervical cancer. They had eighteen months to live. Thirty six years later, she's still here, living on a ranch out here in Colorado. So great for her. Comedian actor Bob Kat Goldwade. He's sixty two. He was born in Syracuse, New York, in nineteen sixty two. Started out as a stand up comedian.

11:16 Then he did a three Police Academy movies, One Crazy Summer Bloom. He had a daughter from his first wife and a daughter from his second wife, Tot Tom Sanger, Want to See Your Face, No Mom, Got mom problem, Thinston to Spend Montazo and All with Young Now Lenny Kravis. He's sixty. He's born in New York City in nineteen sixty four. His mom was actress Roxy Roker. Yeah. She played Missus Willis on The Jeffersons Lenny. He sold over forty million albums. Hill was a Grammy Awards record for one artist when in the same award the most consecutive years. He won Best Male Rock Performer four years in a row. Nineteen ninety nine or two thousand and two. Some of his biggest hits are it Ain't over Till It's over?

12:09 Are you gonna go My way? Fly Away? American Woman. He was married to actress Lisa Bonet for six years and they had daughter, Zoe Kravitz. She's pretty well known actress Helena Bonham Carter. She was born in Islington, England, in nineteen sixty six. She's fifty eight, most known. Pretty much all her stuff is British, but she does have some stuff that came over here. Flight or fight Club, Planning into the Age, Ley, Miss Rob four, Harry Potter movies. Yeah, I know they're British. She was nominated for Oscars for the Wings of the Dove and The King's Speech. She was with Tim Burton for thirteen years and they had two children. I'm going down south. I'm going on half myself time days we were come going down south. I'm going to leave my wolves to my money.

12:56 I've known him south. I'm going to see if I can't do. Matt Stone he was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen seventy one. Fifty three year old grew up in Littleton, Colorado, went to the University of Colorado and Boulder. That's where he met Dray Parker. They created south Park in nineteen ninety seven, so they did the south Park TV show. While they're still doing it, did the south Park movie. They did the movie Basketball, and the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon that actually won nine Tony Awards and one Grammy. I think it's still out touring too. Matt he married in two thousand and eight and they have three two children. Three pieces. We're looking for your friend and the calling to begin. But when he told you he was about the bench mans him. They give them tramps and began. You think you really go for ten? You wasn't down. They called him again. Would you give it up so easy? You went?

13:46 Even him? If you did it in you? Rapper singer songwriter Lauren Ll. She's forty nine. She's born in East Door in New Jersey in nineteen seventy five. She's won eight Grammys. That's the most for a female rapper. She started out on the date time soap opera As the World Turns, and then she did the movie Sister Act Too. But See. Back in high school, she had helped form The Bad and the fugies. Now it finally hit after sister Actually she didn't have to act anymore, and they that did hit big than Lauren Hill. She did the solo album The Miseducation of Lauren Hill in nineteen ninety eight, one of the biggest selling rap albums of all time. Had the Hads doop that thing X factor everything is Everything? Then Nope. She hasn't released on the album since. She's done a bunch of collaborating with other artists though, and she has a very successful record producer.

14:31 She hasn't married, but she does have six kids. Five of them are from Barb Marley's son Rohan Marley. All Right, today's factory. That'll win you a beer. The only word that can be understood in every language around the world. Huh yeah, huh huh, huh, well, huh oh. Thank you all for being here today. You get chanced at I coolmdia dot com. That's cool. Three ers and see what we're doing over there. Let's end with actor Eddie Albert. He died today in two thousand and five at ninety nine years old. Eddie said, courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. No